Recognitions

UVA Engineering is celebrating three faculty members who have earned prestigious and selective National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Computer Science and the Systems & Information Engineering departments, received his award for “Scaling up KnowledgeDiscovery in High-Dimensional Data via Nonconvex Statistical Optimization.” The abstract is

One day soon, the overhead lights and desk lamps in your office could connect you securely to the Internet. The new technology is called Li-Fi, and it uses LED light waves to connect and stream data. Research from Maite Brandt-Pearce, professor of electrical and computer engineering and executive associate dean for academic affairs at UniversityREAD MORE

Microsoft Corp. has named Kevin Scott, a former student in the Computer Science Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, to the role of chief technology officer. Microsoft’s announcement said the position is an expansion of Scott’s role at LinkedIn as senior vice president of infrastructure. Scott will reportREAD MORE

The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science’s online graduate engineering program has been named among the top in the country according to two major rankings services. The program is No. 9 in BestColleges.com list of the best 25 online master's degrees in the country, and No. 15 U.S. News & World Report’sREAD MORE

The University of Virginia Board of Visitors has approved new University Strategic Investment Fund expenditures that will support UVA Engineering’s vision for world-class research and education that provide solutions for a technologically advanced society. The newest investments are: - A $17 million cross-disciplinary effort to end childhood diabetes, involving the School of Medicine, the SchoolREAD MORE

Physics World editors have selected work by University of Virginia Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Avik Ghosh and his colleagues as one of the Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2016. Ghosh and fellow researchers from Columbia University, Cornell University, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science and IBM measured theREAD MORE